Advanced audio CD and MP3 features, Screen layout

Advanced audio CD and MP3 features

This section explains the more sophisticated audio-CD features, together with those for MP3 files on CD-ROM. The operation for audio-CDs and MP3 discs is very similar. MP3 discs can have directories and sub-directories. Audio-CDs do not have a directory structure.

All of these advanced features use on-screen menus, so a TV monitor is required.

Screen layout

When an audio-CD or MP3 disc is detected by the DVD player, the disc navigator screen is displayed.


MP3 Browse Disc Track				86:28:15 00:03:27
/MP3–44100–320kbp Up				PAF PD

12People

2 Chillin

3 FeelingGood

4 TheWord

5 YourLove

Mp3 Info:
2People.mp3
2People.mp3
Artist:	Jean-Jaques Smoothie
Album:	2 People
Album:
Song:
Comment:			320kbps/44100H
Genre:	Disco		Year: ----
		Browse. press ‘OK’ to play.
		Browse. press ‘OK’ to play.

The screen shown above is the disc navigator screen, in this example showing a CD-R containing MP3 files. The following items can be identified:

1The type of tracks/files being played (CD or MP3).

2 The mode of the player. This is described in more detail below.

3 The current track number and the total number of tracks in this directory (for MP3 discs), or on the whole disc (for audio-CDs).

4 The playback time of the current track, and the total playback time.

5 For MP3 discs, this area shows the current directory.

6 ‘Up’ – for MP3 discs, selecting this button changes directory to one level above the current one. This button is not shown for audio-CDs, or if the current directory is at the top level.

7 ‘PAF’ – Play All Files on the disc. Starting from the first valid file/track, all valid files/tracks on the disc are played, in the order found.

8 ‘PD’ – Play Directory. (MP3 discs only). Starting from the first valid file in the current directory, all the (valid) files in the current directory are played.

9 The names of the tracks in this directory. For audio-CDs, the text ‘Track 1’, etc., is shown here. For MP3 discs, the text shown here is based on the file name of the track.

bk When playing MP3 discs, the full name of the file being played is displayed here (subject to screen space).

bl When playing MP3 discs, tag information from MP3 files is displayed here, if present on the disc.

bm Helpful messages to the user are displayed here. When the disc is loaded, the PAF button (7) is highlighted. This means that loading the disc and pressing PLAY or OK is enough to set the disc playing.

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Player mode

When playing audio-CDs or MP3 discs, the player can be in one of three modes:

Browse mode: the user is free to navigate around the disc directory structure (while playback is stopped). Valid files/tracks in each directory (audio-CD tracks or files that can be played) are displayed on the screen. Pressing PLAY while the cursor

is on a valid file/track will start playback from that point, continuing to the end of the disc. Alternatively, the ‘PD’ or ‘PAF’ buttons can be used to start playback.

Programme mode: Press PROG on the remote control to enter ‘Programme’ mode to choose the order in which the files/ tracks are played. Playback must be stopped first. ‘Programme’ mode operates differently for audio-CDs and MP3 discs, and is explained on page 15.

Playlist mode: The player is in this mode when a programmed sequence of files/tracks is being played. No navigation of the disc may be performed in this mode; the player starts at the beginning of the programmed playlist and plays through to the end.

Browsing the disc (Browse mode)

By default, the disc navigator is in ‘Browse’ mode. In this mode, the user can navigate around the disc (using the cursor pad for direction and ‘OK’ to select an option). When a file/track

is highlighted, the tag information for that file (if available) is displayed in the lower portion of the screen. Use the ‘Up’ button to move to a higher-level directory; to enter a lower-level directory, press OK when the directory name is highlighted.

At any time, press PLAY or OK to begin playback from the file/track highlighted currently. Navigation around the current directory is possible during playback, but playback stops automatically if you attempt to navigate out of the current directory. Please note the following:

Fast forward and fast rewind do not work with MP3 playback.

Skipping forward past the end of a directory with MP3 discs causes playback to continue from the next directory containing valid files. Skip-back can be performed only as far as the beginning of the current directory.

Directory trees may be up to 10 directories deep.

Only sample rates of 44.1kHz and 48kHz are supported for MP3 files.